It is actually, under EU law, illegal for Denmark to try and tax those royalties.
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At present the vaccination of cattle against bovine TB is forbidden under international and EU law.
Current EU law prevents quotas being imposed, because it considers them to be "direct discrimination".
But EU law insists that goods must be covered by a two year warranty anyway.
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Svetla Yosifova is a lecturer in EU law at The Hague University of Applied Science.
Again, as EU law both allows and encourages the company to organise itself this way.
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The EU is threatening legal action against Sweden over a wolf hunt that allegedly breaches EU law.
"Neither WTO not GATT has direct effect in EU law", nor is the Common Agricultural Policy relevant.
Under EU law, companies with a dominant market share have a legal responsibility not to abuse it.
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Essentially, 12, 000 or so electricity generators and industrial heavy users of energy have had their emissions limited by EU law.
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Of course, this being EU law then exactly the same applies in all 27 of the EU countries.
Under EU law, the European Parliament has no legislative powers on tax policies, but must be formally consulted.
This helps it to avoid formally having to block the bid by invoking EU law on public-security grounds.
Measures to persuade these havens to apply EU law are also laid out.
She said the policy would penalise responsible drinkers, the whisky industry, cost jobs and would be questionable under EU law.
Instead Brussels wants Switzerland to automatically adopt EU law - a suggestion which is already causing Swiss hackles to rise.
However, the report said deviating from EU law was unlikely and the researchers recommended close monitoring of the birds' behaviour.
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And as aviation pricing is now EU law, it would indeed be tough for the bloc to amend or annul.
The European Court of Justice has declared that certain key aspects of the open-skies deals are contrary to EU law.
Greece is also a member State of the EU (since 1981), therefore EU law covers a large part of internal law.
Her case had been referred to the ECJ by the Dublin Metropolitan District Court, which had sought clarification of EU law.
Romanian President Traian Basescu has urged the European Commission to study the Italian decree to see whether it complies with EU law.
Under EU law, a European firm can already be sued at home for complicity in human-rights violations committed anywhere in the world.
"I don't think this would be illegal under EU law, " he said.
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Germany and France are pushing for changes to the EU treaty, saying stricter fiscal rules should be made part of basic EU law.
The charter was originally drafted in 2000 however did not become enshrined in EU law until the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009.
Under EU law Stilton can only be made by a few dairies in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, where it is believed to have originated.
But they cannot do the same when the Supreme Court issues what are called Francovich damage orders, in other words, fines for breaking EU law.
And EU law over rides UK law, EU law is superior.
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However, HMRC insisted the legislation was "fully compliant with EU law".
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